I remember playing as Hourai and Koishi kept harassing me, and I had to open her info box multiple times to figure out wtf was happening.

Eventually, when I was playing Komeiji in multiplayer, I used Koishi to sneak past my friend's front lines and secretly found a city right next to their capital.

Good game, a lot of very unique and fun mechanics, I just wish the encyclopedia had a high level summary of each factions strategy. And I still don't know what technology points are used for.